Renowned skateboarder Tony Alva is no stranger to empty pools or to making music with fellow Orange County, Calif., musicians in punk band G. F. P., so we invited him to design an acoustic model with us.

The resulting Tony Alva White Lotus Sonoran™SCE dreadnought cutaway model is as truly distinctive as the man’s skating style. The two-tone look consists of a White Pearl gloss finish on a solid spruce top, elegantly complemented by a Shoreline Gold finish on its mahogany back and sides.

FOLK MUSIC INSTRUMENTS

With an upgraded design for modern players, Fender’s new eight-string Mando-Strat® 8 has the unmistakable chiming ring of a traditional mandolin and the charmingly distinctive design style of Fender’s four-string electric mandolins of the 1950s and ‘60s.

Big in size, volume and vibe, the Kingman™ Jumbo SCE cutaway acoustic really cuts through the mix. Its sweet-sounding solid-spruce top produces loud, booming bass and nicely even tone, with a laminated mahogany back and sides that contribute pleasingly mellow warmth, all with an elegantly striking Three-Color Sunburst body and neck finish.

The maple Stratocaster guitar neck has a comfortable “C”-shaped profile and imparts a classic look evoking Fender’s great sun-and-fun acoustics of the 1960s. Other features

ELECTRACOUSTIC SERIES

The popular Electracoustic series welcomes the all-new Stratacoustic™ Plus, Telecoustic™ Plus, Stratacoustic Premier, and Telecoustic Premier to its lineup, and offers upgraded features to the already existing Standard Stratacoustic and Standard Telecoustic guitars.

New Model Features

The most distinctive features of each individual model are listed below:

Standard Stratacoustic

Black laminated spruce top with one-piece textured fiberglass back and sides

Stratocaster body and headstock

Checkerboard rosette

Quartersawn “X” bracing

Bolt-on “C”-shaped maple neck with rosewood fingerboard

Fishman® Isys™ III pickup/active preamp system with built-in tuner

Standard Telecoustic

Black laminated spruce top with one-piece textured fiberglass back and sides

Telecaster body and headstock

Checkerboard rosette

Quartersawn “X” bracing

Bolt-on “C”-shaped maple neck with rosewood fingerboard

Fishman® Isys™ III pickup/active preamp system with built-in tuner

Stratacoustic Plus

Inca Silver laminated spruce top with one-piece textured fiberglass back and sides